LE FIGARO OF PARIS HAS NEW OWNERSHIP
Date: 03 August 1975
new controlling stockholder of Le Figaro is Jean Hersant, who gained control 1 mo after paper's employes staged brief walkout to oppose sale; employes challenged Hersant because of his brief leadership of pro-Ger youth group during Nazi occupation; former owner Jean Prouvost had been trying to sell his stock for several mos (S)
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POLICE FACE SUIT IN KENNEDY CASE; CBS Wants Secret Data on Slaying of the Senator
Date: 02 August 1975
Paul Schrade, ex-Repr Allard K Lowenstein and CBS-TV say they will sue to force disclosure of police evidence in '68 assassination of Sen R F Kennedy; official Police Comm says it will not release secret 10-volume summary of investigation; Schrade was shot in forehead when Kennedy was killed; CBS-TV atty Howard Privett says CBS is filing suit separately under Freedom of Information Act; ct rules in favor of evangelist Oliver B Owen, who charged that he was slandered when a Los Angeles TV exec accused him of criminal involvement in slaying (S)
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PRESS UNIT NAMES 2 FOR INQUIRY IN CHILE
Date: 03 August 1975
IAPA announces apptmt of Guido Fernandez and David G Meissner to investigate status of press in Chile; com apptd in compliance with resolution of assn's exec com at July 28 meeting; com chmn German E Ornes says 2 men will go to Chile in early Oct and would rept at assn's annual meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct 19-24 (S)
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ZEAL OF CENSORS ASSAILED IN INDIA; Head of Top News Agency Calls Efforts 'Excessive'
Date: 03 August 1975
C R Irani, chmn of Press Trust of India, in annual rept issued in Bombay on July 29, assails 'new climate of excessive zeal' in enforcement of press censorship imposed by Govt in July in crackdown on opponents of Prime Min Gandhi
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Minneapolis School Board To Test Open Meeting Law
Date: 03 August 1975
Minneapolis school bd votes unanimously to test Minn open meeting law in suit against Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co; decides to seek declaratory judgment on whether bd can hold secret meetings in seeking new superintendent; Norman L Newball, atty for bd, says paper has been named defendant because of past editorial stands in favor of open meeting law (S)
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A British Test Of the Right To Publish
Date: 03 August 1975
By ANTHONY LEWIS
Anthony LEWIS
A Lewis comment on differences in Amer and Brit treatment of publication of sensitive material as evinced in 2 bids for injunctions being heard by Lord Widgery involving publication of diaries of Richard Crossman by London Sunday Times and publishers Jonathan Cape and Hamish Hamilton; notes absence of const in GB, power of Brit cts, need for govt secrecy and prior restraint; holds no Amer ct would be likely to give Brit Atty Gen Samuel Silkin restraining order he seeks; Cabinet Sec Sir John Hunt objected to diaries' publication because Crossman had described such things as Cabinet debates on sterling crisis on '66
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World News Briefs; Miki's U.S. Visit Protested in Tokyo American Ousted As Spy by Beirut Seoul Asks Jail For 4 in Clergy Vice President Of Niger Arrested Visitors to Nigeria Seek to Leave
Date: 03 August 1975
Japanese Premier Takeo Miki leaves Tokyo on Aug 2 for visit to US; about 4,000 leftists demonstrate at airport protesting what they term an intensification of mil alliance by Japan, US and S Korea, and scheduled meeting between Miki and Pres Ford (S)
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Food News; Shellfish Near Their Peak
Date: 03 August 1975
By HELEN P. SILVER Special to The New York Times
Helen SILVER
Roy Cadmus, who operates Lobster-Crab 'n' Clam Shack in South Amboy, NJ, discusses life cycle of shellfish and their demand; discusses how to prepare lobster tails and rock crab claw; illus
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News of the Realty Trade; Prudential Buys Midtown Property
Date: 03 August 1975
Rockefeller Center Management Corp, subsidiary of Rockefeller Center, NYC, names Leslie H Larsen vp of development and Claude R Nash vp of finance (S)
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